Systems locked out? I am assuming you are attempting to enable those two systems via Quick Keys. Lockout will still kill them as I recall (I never use system lockout).

Most likely NXDN - since that is what the railroads will all eventually be using.

A friend of mine years ago had a 10GHz Gunnplexor on his rear deck pointed backwards. When a big rig truck would follow just a few feet back (as they so often do), he would flip on the Gunnplexor whic

As I understand it, the same thing applies to most of the EU - so it's not just California... I attempted to research this a little and it is very confusing (so what else is now when it comes to laws

As the old saying goes - if the deal is too good to be true, it probably isn't. Way too good to be true. The only way they could actually have scanners to sell, is if they are stolen. Maybe someone hi

It's not just Motorola. Public safety agencies that are buying digital radios are STRONGLY encouraged to use the P-25 standard in order to maintain inter-operability with their neighbors. To help push

I'm not the one who was asking about doing the updates. I also bought my SDS100 without any of the upgrades. There is no ProVoice around here, and although there is LOTS of DMR, there is not really an

I could not do that here because Uniden will not even give you a price without the serial number of the scanner you want to update - and it's at home, and I'm not. Jim

Guess again. I just checked about a half dozen vendors for the SDS100 and all that I checked except one were charging $75.00 for each upgrade. I did find one that had different prices: $99.99 for DMR,

Never really dealt with GE radios or software, but Midland, Kenwood, Bendix King, and Motorola. Yes, there is a learning curve. Besides ham radio uses of commercial radios, professionally I have been

I generally recommend that you DO learn how to program (or at least tweek the programming) for the scanner manually. One of these days, you will be very thankful that you did. Although almost every sc

That is making the assumption that RadioReference has the correct information. I'm sure in some places it's quite good. In some places it is not. As I said in my previous post, it took me a couple hou

That is a true statement. Scanners are more complicated because the radio systems are more complicated. If you think that programming your scanner is hard, try real radios. I run a regional trunked sy

If you are using System Quick Keys, it's easy! For single digit quick keys, just tap that number key. For two digit Quick Keys, the [Dot - also No] followed by the two digits. For example, if I am mon

I make extensive use of Quick Keys on my 396 and 996 scanners.

Yes, they are.

It would be nice if the linked article actually covered what the title states. There is a discussion about NiMH batteries and a little specifics on AA size, but nothing else. There is supposed to be a

Now you guys have done it. With all this talk about the SDS100, I ordered one last night. I have wanted a Phase 2 scanner for a while in large part because the Southern California Edison trunked syste

EDACS was a proprietary format of GE (later acquired by Ericsson then Harris) (not Johnson). It became unsupported shortly after Harris bought the company. It was old, unsupported, and not compatible

Here is an interesting option for agencies that are encrypted. As I have said elsewhere, I run a regional P-25 trunked system for a living. We have dozens of law enforcement agencies on the system. So